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Re:Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury ... by newsclues on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:41AM (#40000299)
If software patents were to become a good thing the duration of the patent should be very short.
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Re:Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury ... by DarkmSparks on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:25AM (#40002523)
but then there would be no incentive to publish the internal workings of the innovation, and you are back to trade secrets. 20/25 years is already fairly short tbh.
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